10 Greatest Rock Music Guitar Solos Of The 2010s

10. End Of The Beginning - Black Sabbath

In 2013, after 35 long years, the original line-up of heavy metal monsters Black Sabbath got back together to record a studio album. Well, almost. Drummer Bill Ward pulled out at the last minute, but this was still the first Sabbath album to feature Ozzy Osbourne since 1978, which is pretty damn cool.

The album, just called 13, was a big hit, topping the charts in both the US and the band’s native UK, and reminded a whole generation of fans that this great band were still capable of pulling out all the stops.

13 opens with the appropriately titled End of the Beginning, an eight-minute screamer inspired by the use of holograms in modern music. As if to demonstrate why robots can never replace human beings, guitarist Tony Iommi laid down an absolutely stonking solo.

Big, bombastic, and technically savvy, the solo in the End of the Beginning is everything you could want from the Sabbath axeman, who proves he’s still got it after 50 years in the business.